We know far more about the libidinous quirks and reckless sexual practices of the departed Eliot Spitzer and the adulterous history o his successor, David Paterson, and his wife than we imagined only a few weeks ago. What we don’t know is when the details of racing’s future will be settled amidst the...

Life in the cradle of political pathos is never quite serene. It goes from one potentially chaotic doomsday scenario to the next, sometimes, as is now the case, week to week. The lawmakers of New York blinked last week when faced with a shutdown of racing at Aqueduct and finally fashioned an agreement...